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I stopped using FB pre-Trump for mostly personal reasons. I keep an account on the side with a fake name so I can peek in on people to see what they're up to (yeah, bad me). I've noticed that the volume of FB posts has dropped way off. A lot of people haven't posted in months.
Anyone else seeing that?
Hugin
(32,778 posts)Possibly with so many people working from home they've discovered more immediate and less commercialized means of getting their daily FOMO fix.
jimfields33
(15,454 posts)Not much to report on Facebook more then maybe once a week. Our lives for the most part are boring.
helpisontheway
(5,004 posts)and doing things. Now the most exciting things I posted are pictures from our first garden. 😂 I plan to post once I complete my first diamond art project. lol We rarely leave the house except for walks and quick stops at the store. We usually order pickup or delivery for that though.. So really not much to post.
jimfields33
(15,454 posts)Glad you get to play in the garden. Thats always a nice treat. Sadly in these times anyway. Ha!
JI7
(89,173 posts)Dread Pirate Roberts
(1,896 posts)Let them have their little circle of hate where they can spread their Memes and Russian propaganda in an alternate universe. Soon the only advertisements will be for buying gold, "all natural" male enhancements and My Pillow. Let's see Zuckerberg make a living off of that.
bluedigger
(17,077 posts)People come, people go. I haven't noticed any decline.
ItsjustMe
(11,166 posts)If not, you will see only the posts that are public. It depends on the settings on their facebook page.
aikoaiko
(34,127 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)We need an anti-facebook forum.
ampm
(299 posts)I joined mainly to see family pic. then it got a bunch of I don't know people so now I go once in a while but I really do my best not to post there. Just giving a head up to a cute family picture.
LeftInTX
(24,544 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,918 posts)Its as banal as ever.
2naSalit
(86,045 posts)Silent3
(15,018 posts)No, it's not dying.
Of course, long ago Facebook ceased to be a favorite social media platform for young people, who seems to need a new platform every 12-18 months because the last most popular one isn't cool enough anymore. I see no threat yet to Facebook being the most firmly established platform for everybody else, however.
I'd really love it if a completely non-commercial, open-source distributed platform could be established, but for all of the privacy concerns people have about Facebook, and content-policing concerns too, I suspect those things might be even harder to achieve with no central control.